I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 333 The Border of Han, Unstoppable

Liu Jian's words shocked both Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

As Liu Jian's most capable person, there are three people Liu Jian trusts the most.

There is no doubt that it is Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.

The status of these three people in Liu Jian's heart is unparalleled, or in other words, there will never be anyone else.

Now Liu Bei has become the shepherd envoy of Xiqingzhou, leading Han Dang, Gao Shun and others to sit on one side, and he is in charge of one side alone. He partnered with Liu Yu and completely shared the pressure on the east of Jizhou for Liu Jian.

Although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were both generals in the past, they were at the stage of accumulating strength for Liu Jian in the local area, and their main purpose was to improve their ability and prestige.

But now, both Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have reached a certain level in terms of ability and prestige.

In fact, the current Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also desperately hope to be reused by Liu Jian, and they are sent out to fight for Liu Jian and pacify the Quartet, instead of just being a general by Liu Jian's side.

But what I didn't expect was that this opportunity came so quickly.

Guan Yu said: "As long as my brother believes in us, the two brothers will definitely work hard for him. If we don't put down the two thieves of the Zhang family, I will swear to the death that I will not return to Jizhou to see my brother!"

Liu Jian reached out and patted Guan Yu's shoulder:

"Good brother, don't give yourself such a big burden. Since you and my brother have vowed to help the Han Dynasty and save the common people, then we should work together to overcome dangers and difficulties. Let us brothers discuss and solve them together. Don't say What a vow of never returning!"

Speaking of this, Liu Jian looked at Zhang Fei again, stretched out his hand to hold the hands of the two of them, and said: "30 years later, when we are all over half a hundred, entering the age of the elderly, and recalling the past, I will What I want to see is that brothers and close friends are still alive, and everyone sits around and talks about half-life achievements! Singing to wine, how much is life!"

Rao is such a tough guy as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, after listening to Liu Jian's words, he couldn't help being warmly moved in his heart.

After being brothers for so many years, every time I listen to Liu Jian speak, I still have that fiery feeling in my heart.

"Brother, the two joined forces with Qiu Liju and recruited troops in Youzhou. It seems powerful, but in fact it is nothing more than a mess. If the two brothers and I go, within three months, we will definitely bring two heads. Dedicate it to your brother."

Liu Jian looked at Guan Yu with admiration, and said: "Yun Chang, I believe that you do have such abilities, but I don't want you to end this war so quickly. I hope that it will be done step by step."

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at each other in surprise.

"Why did brother say such a thing?"

Liu Jian asked the two of them patiently: "You two virtuous brothers, since our brothers became officials together, one of you is the governor of Liaodong, and the other is Sima in Bingzhou. It can be said that you have made military achievements in the border county before you left Today, the land of Youhe has been the shepherd's state in the north of the Han family since ancient times. There are frequent wars, the people's customs are tough, and most of the people in the border villages are not kings. However, according to the two virtuous brothers, Youzhou How does the political situation and the power of the powerful compare with the Central Plains?"

Zhang Fei used to be in Bingzhou, he started from Qu Junhou. Although there were many fights, he didn't pay attention to the people's livelihood and government affairs in the border county.

However, Guan Yu, who served as Wu Meng under Liu Yu and later became the capital of Liaodong, was different.

In addition to military achievements, Guan Yu's understanding of officialdom, the political situation in the Northland, and local forces is much higher than that of Zhang Fei.

At the moment, I heard Guan Yu say slowly: "Guan was originally from Hedong, and the land of Sanhe is close to Luoyang. The power of various ethnic groups is deeply rooted in the world. However, Guan has been in Youzhou for several years, but he feels that the atmosphere of Hedong It is comparable to the counties in Youzhou, and even in some places, Youzhou is far ahead of Hedong."

According to the imagination of ordinary people, Youzhou is a border county, similar to Liangzhou in the west of the Han Dynasty, far away from the center, and the situation should be simpler and purer than that in the Central Plains.

After all, the number of families in the Central Plains is comparable to that in Youzhou, and the political interests of the families are also the most chained and complete.

In places like Bianjun, the water should be clearer and not so turbid. After all, the political resources here are much less than those in the Central Plains.

But in fact, it is not.

Guan Yu's Hedong County is close to Sili, so in Guan Yu's view, the relationship between people in his hometown and the conflict of interests between families are the most complicated and among the best in the Han Dynasty.

But it turned out that after he arrived in Youzhou, Guan Yu discovered that compared with the counties in Youzhou, the political complexity of Hedong County can be regarded as insignificant.

In fact, there are many records in history about this complicated situation in Youzhou.

When the Three Reciprocal Laws were established, it was to prevent the state and county parties from competing with each other, and to prevent marriages and people from two states from facing each other. However, it is difficult to select officials, because the selected officials are deeply intertwined with each other. , The family relationship is really too complicated.

Among them, the governors of Youzhou and Jizhou have not been filled for a long time, and the elections of the three prefectures are uncertain for more than a month.

The complexity of Youzhou is actually similar to that of Jizhou.

In fact, the reason why this happened in the border county was that although Youzhou was a border county, it was too close to Jizhou.

Its area is different from that of Liangzhou, which is also a border county.

In the land of Liangzhou, the Han and Qiang people lived together, and it was far away from the center, and the folk customs were strong, so the degree of penetration by the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty was relatively limited.

But in the land of Youzhou, which is flat and flat, and is too close to Jizhou, it was most infiltrated by the nepotism between the gentry and the gentry in the Han Dynasty.

Although Bianjun lacks the personnel policy and Confucian classics in the Central Plains as a hub of interests, there is one thing in the Youzhou area that has become a huge chain of interests that even the people of the Central Plains cannot touch.

That is alien diplomacy and border wars.

Youzhou is a very sensitive place, and Youzhou and Bingzhou bear the heavy responsibility of guarding against the most powerful enemy in the north of the Han Dynasty.

The big families in the border counties gradually rose up in the foreign wars, and they connected with each other, making the families grow stronger in the nourishment of the war, and because of the existence of foreign races, the central government of the Han Dynasty also had some scruples about these big clans in the border counties and depend on.

After all, the situation in the north is too complicated.

In the north of Youzhou, there are not only Xianbei, which has been an enemy of the Han Dynasty all year round, but also the Southern Xiongnu Royal Court and Wuhuan, which are always rebellious from time to time, although they are attached to the Han Dynasty.

Of course, if you look to the northeast, there are Goguryeo and Yilou. Although these foreign countries pose no threat to the big Han, they are very close to Youzhou. .

Because of this, most of the trade between Goguryeo and Yilou and the interior of the Han Dynasty went through the local families in Youzhou, resulting in close contacts between the local families in Youzhou and the countries in the Northeast, and became an important way to maintain the Han Dynasty and neighboring countries. The middle power of communication.

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After some analysis by Liu Jian, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others, Guan and Zhang probably understood what Liu Jian was going to do for Youzhou.

"As a clan member, I'm also a native of Youzhou. This crusade against Erzhang is definitely not just for the purpose of killing Erzhang and recovering Youzhou. These things are too simple!"

"My hometown in Youzhou, since we are going to regain our hometown, we must integrate the power of the township, use the township as the cornerstone, and do some really big things that are beneficial to the country!"

Guan Yu said: "The heroes of Youzhou have been relying on military exploits for many years, and they are connected with each other, and their power has gradually grown. When dealing with Xianbei, Xiongnu and Wuhuan, they also have ways of dealing with things that are most beneficial to their own interests. The interests of the imperial court were not put first, but the governors and county guards of all dynasties, in order to accumulate meritorious deeds in the border counties, have always taken their own interests from each other, so that they gradually grew bigger and dominated the frontiers, such as the two major powers of Liaodong and Liaoxi. The Gongsun family, and the Zhang family who are now rebelling in Yuyang County, are all relying on the strength accumulated over the years in the frontier county to dare to do things that ordinary people dare not do..."

After a pause, Guan Yu sighed: "Even when Liu Bo'an was the governor of Youzhou, he was constrained a lot, and the weakness of being constrained is quite different from that of the Central Plains... After all, it is about a foreign race. If there is a change, it will be a shocking event! No official will dare to take risks lightly."

Liu Jian said with a smile: "I know what Yun Chang said in my heart. My Liu family in Zhuojun also belongs to a military family that has recently risen in Youzhou over the years... Hebei Chamber of Commerce and Trade has also attracted a lot of people over the years. Youzhou Gaomen joined, and I didn't know about the complicated interests of Youzhou's local tyrants, but now I know."

"But it is also because of this that I am able to reintegrate the power of Youzhou. After all, this is a strategic location for the Han Dynasty to expand to the northern border in the future. All discordant forces that affect my plan to expand the territory must disappear. Either recruit Huairou, or clean up and exterminate!"

By the time Liu Jian finished speaking, the boat on which the three brothers were riding had arrived at the north bank of the Yellow River and was approaching the ferry.

The boatmen drove the boat to the ferry and ordered people to tie the rope.

"My lord! Captain, captain...we're here!"

The soldiers respectfully invited the three of them to disembark, but on the boat, all three of them sat where they were.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at Liu Jian opposite them in surprise.

"My lord! Captain, captain...here we are!"

The soldier said again.

The three still didn't respond.

After a long time, Fang saw Liu Jian smiled and said, "You two brothers, get off the boat."

Only then did Guan Yu and Zhang Fei stand up with Liu Jian, and walked towards the shore with him.

There was another pavilion on the bank, where soldiers had already placed a brazier for Liu Jian and prepared hot soup.

Liu Jian walked over, picked up the hot soup and blew on it, and then gulped a few sips. He felt extremely warm all of a sudden, and the chill from returning from the boat just now disappeared in an instant.

"Brother!"

Zhang Fei came quickly, sat beside Liu Jian, and looked at him in surprise.

"According to brother Shicai's intention, it seems that he wants to expand the territory?"

Liu Jian said while drinking: "Yes! Who stipulated that the border of the Han Dynasty must be Youzhou and Bingzhou. The barbarians in the grassland have repeatedly offended me. Can we not offend him? Which rule is set?"

Guan Yu said in a deep voice, "Where do you want to expand the land, brother?"

"Sanhan, Goguryeo, Yilou, Fuyu, Xianbei Grassland, Jiankun, Dingling... If you want to expand the frontier, there are too many places!"

Guan Yu said: "It's just that those lands are barren lands..."

Liu Jian said with a smile: "Compared to the middle land, those places are indeed barren, but it doesn't mean that those lands are worthless. As long as they have population and resources, they can be used by the Han people. It's just that our ancestors never controlled them. These aliens and the method of ingesting resources, on the contrary, have been repeatedly invaded by them on the border, forming a stubborn state, and the gain outweighs the loss!"

"Yun Chang, Yi De, we are born as Han people, so we have to look far away. Don't you want to be a general who keeps fighting civil wars on our own land? Don't you want to go beyond Changping? Liehou and Championhou, their names will go down in history and be passed down from generation to generation?"

"If you don't want to...I want to!"

(End of this chapter)